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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.088701
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- EU [238597]
- FiDiPro program of TEKES
- project FISICOS of MINECO [FIS2007-60327]
- STSM within COST Action [MP0801]
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Information-communication technology promotes collaborative environments like Wikipedia where, however, controversy and conflicts can appear. To describe the rise, persistence, and resolution of such conflicts, we devise an extended opinion dynamics model where agents with different opinions perform a single task to make a consensual product. As a function of the convergence parameter describing the influence of the product on the agents, the model shows spontaneous symmetry breaking of the final consensus opinion represented by the medium. In the case when agents are replaced with new ones at a certain rate, a transition from mainly consensus to a perpetual conflict occurs, which is in qualitative agreement with the scenarios observed in Wikipedia. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.088701
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